Did you know Lit Hub has a very fun film podcast called Open Form, hosted by Mychal Denzel Smith, in which some of your favorite writers geek out (or wax poetic, or critique, whatever the case may be) about a Read more >
Unionized workers at HarperCollins have voted by an overwhelming majority to authorize a one-day strike against their employer as contract disputes continue. More 99 percent of the bargaining unit—which belongs to Local 2110 of the UAW and is comprised of Read more >
Fun fact: toward the end of his life, William Faulkner’s favorite television show was an NBC sitcom about two very silly cops, Gunther Toody (Joe E. Ross) and Francis Muldoon (Fred Gwynne AKA Herman Munster), tasked with patrolling the fictional Read more >
Hope you all had a lovely long weekend! More importantly: hope you’re all excited for the new books coming out today! * Sayaka Murata, tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori, Life Ceremony (Grove Press) “[A] series of funhouse mirrors, each story in Read more >
Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award-winning author of Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied, Sing—has just become, at 45, the youngest ever winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. The prize, which was established in 2008 as Read more >
Or could you? I hadn’t heard of the Lyttle Lytton Bad Sentence Contest (run by Adam Cadre for 22 years!) till this morning, but poring over this year’s winners, coffee in hand, was just the break from doomscrolling I needed. Read more >
Salman Rushdie—the former PEN America President and Booker Prize-winning author of Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses, and Joseph Anton—just sold a new novel, and it sounds like a doozy. Billed as a translation of an ancient Indian myth, Victory City—Rushdie’s Read more >
Paperbacks—so lightweight, so convenient, so perfect to accompany you to the beach or wherever you’re off to this summer. Here are a few of those we’ll be toting this month: * Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch (Anchor Books, July 5) “[W]hat makes Read more >
In another example of this country being thrust back into the past, two books are currently on trial in Virginia for obscenity: Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir Gender Queer (“This heartfelt graphic memoir relates, with sometimes painful honesty, the experience of growing Read more >
Today, AIGA, the professional association for design, announced the winners of their annual 50 Books | 50 Covers competition. Jurists Silas Munro (Jury Chair), Laura Coombs, Brian Johnson, and Kimberly Varella reviewed 605 book and cover design entries from 29 Read more >
Alta Journal just released a map for the Western bookstore road trip of my dreams: it’s a guide to indie bookstores on the West coast (with a few options from the desert and other non-coastal spots thrown in, because why Read more >
#BookTok—surely you’ve heard of it. It’s the place where youths cry and make Madeleine Miller’s The Song of Achilles fly off the shelves. It’s the thing prompting publishers to wonder if they need to download TikTok…one more thing on the Read more >
Five years ago, I didn’t even know there was a literary category called “middle-grade,” but now that my 11-year-old devours at least one giant book a week, I have become something of an expert.* So I was happy to see Read more >
In the wake of the overturn of Roe v. Wade by a “vehemently anti-Democratic Supreme Court,” publishers have reported higher sales of both front- and backlist titles about abortion and reproductive freedom. Among the titles in high demand are Annie Read more >
Living in New York is great because there are cool things happening all the time. (Quick shoutout to the Center for Fiction’s Indie Press Summer Fridays series, which is free to attend!) But it’s also expensive as hell and bullshit that Read more >
For over a decade, a Chinese woman known as “Zhemao” created a massive, fantastical, and largely fictional alternate history of late Medieval Russia on Chinese Wikipedia, writing millions of words about entirely made-up political figures, massive (and fake) silver mines, Read more >
